Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was almost no support for lengthening the Thanksgiving vacation. Most SGA members felt that the Administration's lax policy on granting cuts for classes Thanksgiving weekend makes it unnecessary to establish an official recess at this time...
...intrepid Bilbo Baggins, another weekend rears its ugly head...
...term earlier--will gain little favor from either the working or the pleasure-loving. The other possibility--and the easier one to put into effect--is the shortening of the three week spring reading period. A side issue is whether or not Thanksgiving should become a legal four-day weekend at the expense of a few days from the summer vacation. Such a sacrifice seems unnecessary since those who need the vacation seem to take it anyhow...
...widely divergent contemporary operas were presented this weekend at Harvard and B.U. The first was The Man in The Man-Made Moon, by Joel Mandelbaum '53, given its world premier Saturday night. For the hour-long opera Mandelbaum wrote both the music and the libretto. His work is mostly a spoof on the conventional opera form, although in the course of an hour he also parodies Freud, 12-tone composers, science, and the self-made man. The music enlivened the parody, especially in a romantic mock-Brahmsian chorus to the text "The complete and utter destruction of the universe." Saturday...
...complete contrast to this light-hearted parody was Hindemith's thorny Mathis der Maler, presented over the weekend in English by the B.U. Opera School. The costumes, lights, and staging were equal to and often above professional standards. The opera deals with Mathias Grunwald, the great 16th century painter and the place of the artist, or indeed of any man, in the world...